RE: The Death Penalty - are you for or against it and why?
June 27, 2011 at 3:54 am
(This post was last modified: June 27, 2011 at 3:56 am by Judas BentHer.)
(June 27, 2011 at 1:34 am)Epimethean Wrote: It is less about punishment and more about prevention if it were to be handled in a consistent manner without ten million appeals and twenty years on death row, all subsidized by tax payers. I'll be damned if I find anything just in paying to keep some serial rapist or killer alive at my cost just to "punish" him.
Agreed. Which is why I think, and especially with the advent of private corporately owned prisons in America now, that a private corporately owned labor penitentiary system should be enacted as a test. One that includes segregated facilities, so that those doing life and life without parole are housed together and short timers are housed separate and apart, so they're not made prey and victim to those who have nothing to lose in a general population.
In such a system the tax payer monies would fund the facility management, security and utilities. While the prisoners would have to labor in order to afford the very basic necessities outside those of their cell accommodations. Also, self-euthanasia would be an elective for those serving life and LwoP as a matter of good business.
(June 27, 2011 at 3:19 am)Anymouse Wrote: I can't abide by the "general consensus thinking what is right." Democracy is merely tyranny of the masses.Curious. What form of government do you support? And why?
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